Tor Access

Our Tor gateway is back! It is now connected to an internal hub server directly
and now changes your vhost to reflect that you are using the Tor service.
For now the address for the hidden service is dkkip7bcgrmjr2hg.onion.

Usage in Weechat

Thanks much to the anonymous user who wrote this
guide, which I adapted into this tutorial.

Depending on what distribution of Linux you run, the process for installing Tor
will vary. However, for Debian or Ubuntu boxes, the process for installing and
setting up a basic Tor client is:

After that, open a user’s IRC client as normal and instruct it to connect to
the Tor Socks5 proxy at 127.0.0.1:9050. I will show an example with Weechat
(binary package weechat in most distributions) below.

For other operating systems such as Windows or OSX, you might have to do
a little extra work, but there are many tutorials available for connecting to
Freenode over Tor that can be easily adapted for PonyChat. However, it
generally is the same process as above.

Technical Information

On connection to PonyChat over tor, a new service named Zuul will greet you
with all of the information it knows about you.

Channel Moderation Information

If a channel wishes to ban all tor users they may do so in one of a few ways:

The first way is to ban the mask *!*@tor/registered/*. This will act as
a catch-all for any user who does not have a vhost.
Another, better way is to use the extban system to ban the internal only hidden
server that tor users connect from. An example:

/mode #help +b $s:onion.ponychat.net

This will ban all users on the server onion.ponychat.net (the name of our tor
hidden service), disallowing any users connecting via tor from accessing your
channel.

If the above article is not enough to solve your problem, please email us at
staff@ponychat.net so that we can help you further.

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